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Tribulation trail
Tribulation Trail is a dramatized scenario that takes a person through the Book of Revelation in the Christian Bible. The Mount Vernon Baptist church; in Stockbridge, Georgia; holds the Tribulation Trail every year since 1992 from early to late October. The church intends each year to bring awareness of Jesus Christ and salvation to the visitors of the trail.

History
The tribulation trail came into place in October of 1992 at Metro Heights Baptist Church in Stockbridge, Georgia. The idea for the tribulation trail came from a similar event called “The Chilling Field” that had been hosted by another local church in the area. The senior pastor, Reverend Calvin Yarbrough and the youth pastor, Don Yarbrough also created haunted houses when they were younger. It became so large that they had to create a trail, which in turn helped spark the idea of the Tribulation Trail. Since The Chilling Field was no longer in operation, it gave the pastors more motivation to start the trail. Within the first year of the trail opened, it had over a hundred visitors. For the total years, that the trail has been opened it has had over 27,000 visitors. The Tribulation Trail was at Metro Heights Baptist Church. However, in present day the trail is at the Mount Vernon Baptist Church in Stockbridge, Georgia.

Description
The Tribulation Trail is a half-mile trail that takes place outside in the woods of Mount Vernon Baptist Church. The Tribulation trail takes place every weekend in October. Around 200 volunteers and church members help depict and set up the scenes in the woods. The trail is approximately ninety minutes to go through. The church recommends that children under the age of ten do not attend due the harsh nature of some of the scenes. . It takes each person through the final judgment days of the Earth as told in the Book of Revelation as John the Baptist tells it. The trail begins with the life of Jesus Christ. It then shows modern day scenes, for example, they recently portrayed images of 9/11 in one of their skits. After the modern day scene, nine more scenes go through the beginning of the Apocalypse with horsemen. The other various scenes depict the rapture and the final judgment. At the end of the trail, it goes into the final battle of Jesus Christ and the Devil. Once the trail has ended, the church hopes to reach out to the nonbelievers of Jesus Christ or to rededicate Christians.